A senior Pakistani security official said on Tuesday that India and Pakistan have agreed to withdraw the troop reinforcements they rushed to the border during their week-long conflict this month.
“Troops will be withdrawn to pre-conflict positions by the end of May,” the official told Agence France-Presse (AFP), speaking anonymously because he did not have permission to issue statements to the media.
According to this source, India and Pakistan agreed to a “phased withdrawal” of troops and artillery, mostly from the unofficial border known as the Line of Control (LoC) in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Kashmir was the scene of the brutal April 22 terrorist attack that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. India’s retaliatory strikes against terrorist camps
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